Grades 9-12 Standards

National & SASD Standards covered in this lesson:

National Standards

NA-VA.9-12.1 Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
• Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks.
• Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use.

NA-VA.9-12.5 Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
• Students identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works.
• Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art.

NA-VA.9-12.6 Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
• Students compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis.
• Students compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences.

NS.9-12.5 Science and technology
• Abilities of technological design.
• Understandings about science and technology.

NL-ENG.K-12.1 Reading for perspective

NL-ENG.K-12.3 Evaluation strategies

SASD Standards

Art & Design
C1- Performance Standard: Students will explore basic skills and demonstrate
Benchmarks: Students will be able to produce quality art using basic problem solving, individual style, technical skill of media and craftsmanship.

J1-Performance Standard: Students will reflect and talk about works of art in basic terms
Benchmarks: Students will learn the role of art criticism and aesthetic knowledge in art and design should be an action: sample- Student will critique their own and others artwork in order to reflect on its aesthetic meaning and cultural and historical influences.

L1-Performance Standard: Students will use problem-solving strategies that promote fluency, elaboration and originality.
Benchmarks: Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills that communicate clear and focused ideas based on planning, research and problem solving demonstrated by multiple sketches.

B1- Performance Standard:
Students will recognize that artists and cultures throughout history have used art to communicate ideas and to develop functions, structure, and designs.

Language Arts
A.12.1-Performance Standard: Use effective reading strategies to achieve their purpose in reading.
Benchmarks: Apply word attack and context to determine word meaning. Gather information to make generalizations/inferences about the text. Distinguish between fact, opinion, literal and figurative meanings of terms.

C. 12.3- Performance Standard: Participate effectively in discussion.

F.12.1- Performance Standard: Conduct research and inquiry on self-selected or assigned topics, issues, or problems and use an appropriate form to communicate their findings.